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Dame Margo Fonteyn interest - Small collection of ephemera, including - photograph album with postcards, press photographs and magazine cuttings, two news cuttings albums, a book - "The Art of Ballet" by Audrey Williamson, signed both by the author and Margo Fonteyn, two Royal Opera House programmes signed by the artist, and one other book £120-160
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Edwin Smith - "The Picture Post Coronation Peepshow Book", published by Hulton press 1953 (slight damage) £60-80
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"View of the Mall in St. James's Park" - A perspective view published London 1829, 4.25ins x 5.25ins (slip case missing) £120-160
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Fortescue Hitchins and Samuel Drew - "The History of Cornwall", volumes 1 and 2, printed and published by William Penaluna, Helston, 1824 (two brown leather bound volumes - bindings in poor condition) £100-150
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Christopher Kelly - "A New and Complete System of Universal Geography", volumes 1 and 2, printed for Thomas Kelly, London 1814 (two brown leather bound volumes - bindings in poor condition) £300-400
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Edward Lake - "Officium Eucharisticum - A Preparatory Service to a Devout and Worthy Reception of the Lord's Supper", 13th edition, published by R. Ware, W. & D. Baker et all, London 1753 (one leather bound volume - binding very worn) £80-120
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"The Girl's Own Annual", volume 4 (1882-1883), published by "The Leisure Hour" Office, London (one three quarters brown leather bound volume), "Cassell's Saturday Journal", October 1883 to September 1884, published by Cassell & Company, London (one red cloth bound volume) and a quantity of children's and other books, mostly with pictorial covers £120-160
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Hammond Innes - "The Conquistadors", published by The Arcadia Press as a limited edition of 265 copies (No. 32) and signed by the author, in full length calf binding designed by Zaehnsdorf of London (boxed), and four others comprising - J.B. Priestley - "The Prince of Pleasure", Alan Moorehead - "Darwin and the Beagle", John Masters - "Casanova", and R. Hay & P.M. Synge - "The Dictionary of Garden Plants", all signed, numbered and boxed £200-250
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"J.V. Stalin - Works", volumes 1, 3-8, published by Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1953 (seven maroon cloth bound volumes - lacking dust wrappers - slightly worn throughout) £60-80
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Alistair MacLean - "The Guns of Navarone", published by Collins, London 1957 (one hardbound volume with dust wrapper), and a quantity of first edition volumes (one box) and five first edition novels by Iris Murdoch, including - "The Italian Girl" (some with slight wear to bindings and dust wrappers (one box) £100-150
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John Leland - "The Itinerary of John Leland, the Antiquary", published by James Fletcher and Joseph Bote, Oxford 1770, third edition (nine volumes in three contemporary calf bound volumes and eight 19th Century leather bound volumes) £100-150
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John Speed - "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, Presenting an Exact Geography of the Kingdomes of England, Scotland and Ireland and the Isles adjoyning with the Shires, Hundreds, Citys and the Shire townes within the Kingdome of England devided and described As also a Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World" by John Speed ith many Additions never before Extant", printed for Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell 1676 - Folio, two works, comprising five parts, in one volume incorporating 96 double paged engraved maps, the first work - four parts in one volume, with royal achievements of Charles II, engraved title, title dedication and licence and 11 pages of preliminaries and 68 double-page engraved maps; Printed title incorporating contents leaf and 28 double paged engraved maps. Good impressions throughout, contemporary blind stamped full calf binding (skilfully re-backed) £60000-80000
Note: For this definitive 1676 edition of the Prospect, the publisher added eight further map sheets. These include four of the Americas engraved by Francis Lamb, namely New England New York, Carolina and Florida, Virginia and Maryland and Jamaica and Barbados, and three further foreign maps of the East Indies, Russia and the Holy Land, and a map of the Invasions of England - this edition is complete with full complement maps of the Americas
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